And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.